Structure vs. Union — What's the Difference?

A structure is an arrangement and organization of interrelated elements in a material object or system, or the object or system so organized. Material structures include man-made objects such as buildings and machines and natural objects such as biological organisms, minerals and chemicals.

The act of uniting or the state of being united.

The arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex

A combination so formed, especially an alliance or confederation of people, parties, or political entities for mutual interest or benefit.

A building or other object constructed from several parts

(Mathematics) A set, every member of which is an element of one or another of two or more given sets.

Construct or arrange according to a plan; give a pattern or organization to

Agreement or harmony resulting from the uniting of individuals; concord.

Something made up of a number of parts that are held or put together in a particular way

The state of matrimony; marriage

The way in which parts are arranged or put together to form a whole; makeup

Sexual intercourse.

The interrelation or arrangement of parts in a complex entity

A combination of parishes for joint administration of relief for the poor in Great Britain.

Something constructed, such as a building.

A workhouse maintained by such a union.

The arrangement or formation of the tissues, organs, or other parts of an organism.

A labor union.

An organ or other part of an organism.

A coupling device for connecting parts, such as pipes or rods.

To give form or arrangement to

A device on a flag or ensign, occupying the upper inner corner or the entire field, that signifies the union of two or more sovereignties.

A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.

An organization at a college or university that provides facilities for recreation; a student union.

The underlying shape of a solid.

A building housing such facilities.

The overall form or organization of something.

Union The United States of America regarded as a national unit, especially during the Civil War.

A set of rules defining behaviour.

Union Of, relating to, or loyal to the United States of America during the Civil War

(computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.

Of or relating to a labor union or labor union organizing

Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend to attract fish

(countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.

A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.

(countable) The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.

(logic) A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.

(countable) That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.

(transitive) To give structure to; to arrange.

(countable) A trade union; a workers' union.

The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

(countable) An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.

Manner of building; form; make; construction.

(countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.

Arrangement of parts, of organs, or of constituent particles, in a substance or body; as, the structure of a rock or a mineral; the structure of a sentence.

The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.

Manner of organization; the arrangement of the different tissues or parts of animal and vegetable organisms; as, organic structure, or the structure of animals and plants; cellular structure.

(countable) The act or state of marriage.

That which is built; a building; esp., a building of some size or magnificence; an edifice.

Sexual intercourse.

A thing constructed; a complex construction or entity;

A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.

The manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts;

A large, high-quality pearl.

The complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations;

(historical) An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.

A particular complex anatomical structure;

To combine sets using the union operation.

The people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships;

Belonging to, represented by, or otherwise pertaining to a labour union.

Give a structure to;

The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination.

Agreement and conjunction of mind, spirit, will, affections, or the like; harmony; concord.

That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league; as, the weavers have formed a union; trades unions have become very numerous; the United States of America are often called the Union.

A textile fabric composed of two or more materials, as cotton, silk, wool, etc., woven together.

A large, fine pearl.

A device emblematic of union, used on a national flag or ensign, sometimes, as in the military standard of Great Britain, covering the whole field; sometimes, as in the flag of the United States, and the English naval and marine flag, occupying the upper inner corner, the rest of the flag being called the fly. Also, a flag having such a device; especially, the flag of Great Britain.

A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine; especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes and fittings, in such a way as to facilitate disconnection.

A cask suspended on trunnions, in which fermentation is carried on.

An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer;

The United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War);

The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes;

The state of being joined or united or linked;

The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce);

Healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones

A political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations;

A set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets;

The occurrence of a uniting of separate parts;

A device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)

The act of making or becoming a single unit;

Being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the Civil War;

Of trade unions;